Book One: Awakening the Essence

On a mountainside in the south of France, Rory Forsythe, a beautiful woman and successful entertainment executive, awakens from a car accident to find she has acquired sensory abilities that both mystify and frighten her. While trying to comprehend these new abilities, she is catapulted violently into a worldwide power struggle that began eons ago.

With handsome Irishman Kelsey O’Keefe at her side, Rory takes up the hunt for the hidden location of a venerable family fortune. As these two –fiercely drawn to each other, fall in love and set out to solve the mystery of her past – the novel moves backward and forward in time from today’s Los Angeles and Lyon to atop an ancient temple in Babylon and a tribal circle of judgment held 8,000 years ago.

The search begins in Paris with a mysterious Aunt Helene, where Rory learns her new sensory power has a name – Essence – that is inherited from her family. The journey continues to the Swiss chateau of reclusive financier Julian Weiss, moves to primordial caves deep in the Pyrenees, and finally to a secluded mountaintop home in Sedona.

When her treacherous sister Deirdre snatches their mother’s Egyptian necklace, the key that will unlock secret treasures, all seems lost. Can they recover the key and discover the true identity of the Banished, a clandestine group seeking to destroy every member of Rory’s family for over 7,000 years? Rory’s increasingly inspired yet dangerous moves in this ruthless game bind her to her heritage and the priceless legacy she was born to protect – The Siren Chronicles.